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...coming to mean extraordinary value for well-fixed investors. When two tiny, exquisite 18th century Philadelphia tables were auctioned at Christie's in Manhattan last Saturday, the prices they fetched were breathtaking. The first item, a dainty piecrust tea table, sold for $1.2 million; the second, a rectangular pier table less than 3 ft. high, was whisked from the block for $4.6 million...
...Bruce (Pier Carlo Talenti) has a problem. His relationship with his gay lover, Bob (Andres Irlando), isn't satisfying, so he places a personal ad in the hopes of meeting a nice female companion. Prudence (Patricia Goldman) answers the ad, but becomes a bit disconcerted when Bruce openly admires her breasts, announces that he is bisexual and cries at the first sign of rejection. The initial encounter ends badly, and both rush to their analysts in an effort to find out what went wrong...
...riddled with cracks in the support columns. Officially, it is supposed to reopen next spring, but one structural engineer who has examined it says, "I'd never go back on that s.o.b. again. No matter how much they shore it up, there is no way to make it safe." Pier 45, the city's main fishing pier, was closed because inspectors found deep fissures running the length of the pier floor. With no alternative pier to sail from, the 150-boat commercial-fishing fleet has been idled just as the herring and Dungeness crab season was about to open. Other...
...heavy in some areas and one ferry was turned back because of rough waters on the San Francisco Bay, authorities said. The Union Ferry Building, the terminus of all ferries when they reach San Francisco, was closed because of high waves and the boats were diverted to a pier about a mile away...
...Several pieces of abandoned wicker furniture are reported outside Pier 1 I Imports on Eliot St. Cambridge police find several hundred dollars-worth of furniture outside the store. An officer speculates the objects are sale items put outside during the day and forgotten. The manager is responding to lock up the "sidewalk sale" merchandise, the officer says...